St Philip's Church, Buckingham Palace Road

It was designed in a redbrick neo-Gothic version of the Early English style by Brierly and Demaine with enough seats for 850 and (to avoid excluding working-class worshippers) no pew rents.

[1][2] The church's parish hall and parsonage (designed in 1892 by Robert William Edis) survive at the corner of Buckingham Palace Road and Elizabeth Street.

[2] A merger back into the parish of St Michael's Church, Chester Square was proposed in September 1919.

[3] The church building of St Philip's was leased to the Russian Orthodox Church's London parish from 1921 onwards, though the parish still had an Anglican vicar as of 1938-1939 when the post's holder W. H. Elliott successfully petitioned Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London for money to repair damage to airflow and light-flow caused by the construction of the new Imperial Airways building nearby.

[4] The church was seriously but reparably damaged during the Blitz and the Russian congregation moved out in 1956 when the building was demolished for an extension of Victoria Coach Station.